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Need your help on these two. They are for an SOTW on another site, but I have second thoughts about the first one because I don't know if it fits the theme and that's what you are going to help me with. Any other things you find will be helpful.
Neither is AS safe.

1. Final Version

2. 1st version, the text fails. I have to come up with something else there but the overall sig wil stay the same.

The theme description is: "Happy, warm, cute etc. Basically a warm color signature. The signature must include at least one warm color and/or a cute render(Pokemon, neko girl, whatever else there is, and it doesn't have to be anime)."

My first thought would be that neither really fits the theme as such. I like the first one a lot more, but the blackness and focus on green doesn't give out a warm feeling - the warm color is essentially lacking.

The second one kind of suffers from the same problem. The color focus seems to be more on blue and that overall shade of green making it rather cold. Maybe changing it towards typical red/orange/yellow warmer colors would make it a lot better. And I agree that the text needs some working (and I'm not a big fan of the current border it, but that's just me).

My first thought would be that neither really fits the theme as such. I like the first one a lot more, but the blackness and focus on green doesn't give out a warm feeling - the warm color is essentially lacking.

About the same I got from some others I asked. I guess I'll work on the other one unless I get permission from the contest manager.

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The second one kind of suffers from the same problem. The color focus seems to be more on blue and that overall shade of green making it rather cold. Maybe changing it towards typical red/orange/yellow warmer colors would make it a lot better. And I agree that the text needs some working (and I'm not a big fan of the current border it, but that's just me).

Hmm, I see. damn green again, damn colorblindness. I'll see what I can do, if I come up with something new or redo this one. As I said, the text is only there to show how it looks with text, it will be completely reworked.
Hmm, didn't know about the border. I can experiment some more there.

Oooh, nice work on these. I really enjoy the "faded" feeling to them. I was never fond of having white on the sides of the render but you pulled it off...no fair.

Glad you liked the brushes as well~

Actually, I didn't think of doing a fading effect for the first one, but as I went along, I realized that with the help of those brushes and some cloning, I could remove some lines interfering with the pic. Then the fadng part came by itself. And the result was better than I anticipated

And at last, something very strange went on in my head. I grabbed a car render, grabbed one of my smudge brushes, smudged around a bit, added more light, made it more dark in some places and voilŠ:

Spoiler for No idea:

My thought was a landscape with a forest, fog and sun. Some of you might see it, some not. That's the whole idea anyway. More abstract than anything.

Very nice siggy there, and the banner is pretty cute ^_^
I see you used Haku's brushes there eh? It's a nice combination!
I'm also digging your "abstract" foggy forest, I can see it and I think you did a pretty awesome job You'll have to do a tut on that sometime!

Very nice siggy there, and the banner is pretty cute ^_^
I see you used Haku's brushes there eh? It's a nice combination!
I'm also digging your "abstract" foggy forest, I can see it and I think you did a pretty awesome job You'll have to do a tut on that sometime!

I'm glad you you saw the forest, except that I realize now that I said in the description what it was, kind of defeating my own purpose...oh well.
I could make a tut for it but it's very random how it turns out. I just grabbed a car render, some smudge brushes and went on with it.

Btw, I used the same smudge brush as the one I have in my tutorial that I posted in the tutorial section. Use the same setting with another render and you might get some results. Also use, dodge and burn tool to change the brightness of certain areas.

It's mostly random of what I do or depending what mood I have at the time. Sci-fi/realistic/technical is my preferred area but that's mostly because I watch sci-fi and listen to trance, influencing me to do a sig with that theme.
The Sniper-san sig was because of an image I found while looking for pictures to my Strike Witches character...and since I love snipers...well...